FCPX Hard Drive Setup

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DNathan

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Switching to FCPX and restructuring my workflow:

• Bay 1: Lion OS
• Bay 2: Raid 1a - For Project Files
• Bay 3: Raid 1b - dup of Raid 1a
• Bay 4: Render files

• Airport USB External: RAID 1 for all ISO files, and raw files (all SD cards copied here for network purposes), family photos/videos, iTunes
• FW800 External: dup of Airport RAID 1
• SATA Toaster for three more drives to store overflow render files.

For my second RAID I want to use externals so that I can utilize the Airport for our second computer to be able to work on the same FCPX projects. Is that possible? It doesn't need to be as fast for ISOs and all the family stuff, but if it slows editing I would need to instead store my raw SD card copies in the Bay 2 RAID. Thoughts?
 
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You would basically have to set your Project/Events folder into Bay 4, then keep all your media in Bay 2 but make sure FCPX isn't copying media into the Events folder.
 
That helps. Thanks! I guess I could make Bay 4 a RAID1 with a Sata external to back up the project files.
 
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